From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping commit messages at 72 columns Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:09:29 -0700 Message-ID: <1427918969.31790.78.camel@perches.com> References: <1427634005-4313-1-git-send-email-ipm@chirality.org.uk> <20150331.135338.519327316482059081.davem@davemloft.net> <1427825806.10376.42.camel@perches.com> <1427827225.18175.3.camel@perches.com> <20150401122001.f0203b0ddac348db14e5822a@linux-foundation.org> <20150401213618.029f8c1f@lwn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , David Miller , Ian Morris , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-doc To: Jonathan Corbet Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150401213618.029f8c1f@lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 21:36 +0200, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700 > Andrew Morton wrote: > > waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life. crybaby... :) > I use 75 too, FWIW. > > It seems to me that nobody out there complains about 75-character lines > in commit logs; it's the 120-character lines that irritate people. I > would suggest that this limit could be set to 75 (or even, say, 77) 77 might be one too many. git log has a default 4 space indent of the commit message so 75 or 76 would still fit an 80 column screen. > and > still achieve its real purpose while leaving far fewer ruined lives in its > wake. I don't wanna be held liable for that ruination, thanks.